23.03.2010 Forestry Tasmania’s Jeffery’s Spins a Forest Yarn,

“Forestry Tasmania’s Ken Jeffery’s has attempted to take attention away from the highly contentious logging that is planned for high conservation value forest that was once a national park, by spinning a forest yarn that conservationists have failed to bring up the issue in the past,” Huon Valley Environment Centre’s Jenny Weber said.,

“Huon Valley Environment Centre has on a number of occasions raised concerns about this road development in the Picton Valley, where today’s protest is being held. In 2007 Campaigners from the centre raised concerns about this logging, a number of times with Forestry Tasmania, again in 2008 these concerns were raised with Federal Politicians in Canberra and this World Heritage Bordering forest was raised in all lobbying of the World Heritage Bureau,” Jenny Weber said.,

“This logging is the start of a number of logging threats that will access a large area of high conservation value forest that was once in the Hartz Mountains National Park,” Jenny Weber said